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Susan is the GIS & Map Librarian in the Earth Sciences & Map Library at Cal. Before coming to Berkeley she was a GIS Specialist at the Yale University Library. She has masters’ degrees in both Geography and Library Science from Indiana University, and is interested in new mapping technologies, data accessibility, and Mongolia, among other things.

This workshop will cover two core methods for mapping tabular geospatial data: table joins and spatial joins. Table joins allow you to link the content in two tables together based on a key field, while spatial joins allow you to connect layer features based on their spatial location. We will be using QGIS to explore these two tools. Along the way we will make use of the related technique of summarization and work through some commonly encountered problems with joins.